Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 401
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Music and Red Stripe
Untitled (Red Collage with
Black Wedge)
The Letter
Untitled (Red Collage with
Music and Crayon Lines)
1989
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
28½ x 23 in. (72.4 x 58.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 89
ArtIst’s studIo number
c89-3546
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private collection, 2000
comments
This collage takes its title from the
small piece of sheet music near the center, which is from Mozart’s Arietta
“Oiseaux, si tous les ans” (Birds, If
Every Year; k. 307/284). It also contains
a fragment of a 1984 print, Mexican
Night II (Engberg and Banach 2003,
no. 348).
1990
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
canvas mounted on Masonite
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 90
ArtIst’s studIo number
c90-3582
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2003
solo exhIbItIons
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., August 1991.
comments
This collage incorporates a fragment
from a 1990 print, The Poet’s Eye
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 493).
1990
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on panel
19¼ x 15¼ in. (48.9 x 38.7 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 90
ArtIst’s studIo number
c90-352; c90-3572
present owner
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia. Gift of the Dedalus
Foundation and John Lambert Fund,
1994.6.7
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991;
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, 1994
comments
This collage includes a fragment of a
1990 print, Seaside Studio (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 495). Its title refers to
the torn envelope at the center, which
was mailed from the rue La Boétie in
Paris and postmarked November 27,
1981.
1990
Acrylic, pasted papers, and oil pastel on
canvas mounted on panel
19¼ x 15¼ in. (48.9 x 38.7 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: RM
ArtIst’s studIo number
c90-3565; c90-3569
present owner
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia. Gift of the Dedalus
Foundation and John Lambert Fund,
1994.6.6
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991;
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, 1994
comments
This collage contains three fragments
of sheet music from two compositions
by Mozart. At the upper left and lower
right, the music is from the Fugue
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